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Filed June 19, 1925 3 sheets-sheet 1 June 29 192 L9@ l G. B. SHHPLEY TIE TRUCK Filed June 19. 1925 I5 Sheets-Sheet 2 WITNSSES @arfym .Hume 29 19 G. B. SHEPLEY TIE yTRUCK Filed June 19, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 WlTNESSES 4i/nj 4 INVENTOR Maxam. M7

Patented June 29, 1926..

UNITED STATES GRANT IB. SHIPLEY, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

TIE TRUCK.

Application led .Tune 19, 1925. `Serial No. 38,218.

rlhis invention relates to a truck or tram, particularly one for carrying railroad ties or other timbers into and supporting the same in a treating cylinder or tank.

The object of the invention is to provide a frame for such a truck ortram which can be made in a single integral piece, such as a steel casting, and which is therefore strong and rigid because entirely free from joints or fastenings of any kind.

rllhe invention comprises a truck frame having the features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a'plan view of the truck frame, a part thereof being in horizontal section on the line ll-I, Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same with a part thereof in transverse vertical section, on the line II-IL Fig. 1, and showing the treating cylinder in transverse section; Fig. 3 is in part a side elevation and in part a central longitudinal vertical section on the line III-III, Fig. 1; Figs. 4 and 5 are detail sectional views taken respectively on the lines IV-IV and V-V, Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the truck frame modified to accommodate a bolster.

The truck frame shown in Figs. 1 to 5 is particularly designed for carrying railway ties into and supporting them in treating cylinders or tanks, the ties lying longitudinally of the truck. This truck frame is cast in a single integral piece and therefore is without joints or fasteningsfof any kind. Its main elements are the two side frames or girders 10, the four vertically projecting and laterally sloping arms 11, one at each corner of the truck frame, and the cross frame members hereinafter described uniting the side girders.

The side frames or girders 10 are of hollow box-like construction, each comprising an inside vertical web 12, an outside vertical web'13, top web 14, and end webs 15, thus formin in effect box girders which are entirely c osed except that they are open on their bottoms, and also have openings 16 in their tops and sides, for the sake of lightness. The wheels 17, four in number, are housed -in these hollow girders, one at each end of each girder, and are mounted on short axles 18 secured in openings in the vertical webs of said girders.

The arms 11 project upwardly from the outer sides of these girders, at their ends.

'I "hese arms are of angle shape in cross section comprising longitudinal webs 20 rising from the outer upper corners of the box-like girders, and transverse webs 21 extending outwardly in the planes of the end webs 15 of said girders. These arms slope outwardly as shown, in order to enable the truck to carry a load approximating in cross sectional dimension the inside diameter of the treating cylinder or drum. These arms at their upper ends are provided with means for the attachment of bails or chains 22, for securing the load of ties on the truck. The particular attaching means shown comprises a pin 23 secured in the longitudinal web of each arm and projecting outwardly and adapted to receive an eye on the end of the bail. The transverse web of each arm, near its lower end is provided with a hole 24, through which a cable can be passed when it is necessary to haul a string of such trucks under conditions where the ordinary coupling means, hereinafter described, cannot be utilized.

The cross frame connecting the two side girders is integral with the inner webs 12 of the side girders near their bottoms. It" comprises two cross members 26, each of which is provided with an upstanding transverse rib 27 having an acute upper edge as shown, and upon which the ties which are loaded on the truck rest. The weight of the load will cause the acute upper edges of rib 27 to bite into the lower faces of the ties resting thereon and thus prevent the loa-d from shifting endwise. In advance of the cross members 26 are the curved buffer or bumper members 28, whose webs are provided with the coupling pin holes 29, and above these webs are the coupling ears 30 provided with aligned holes 31, to receive coupling pins, the coupling itself being made by any standard form of link, as will be readily understood. The two cross members 26 are united by a central longitudinal connecting web 32, and the cross frame is strengthened longitudinally by the depending rib 33 which extends from end to end of the truck frame along its central line.

At each corner of the truck frame, pro-v jecting outwardly from the outer webs 13 of each of the side girders, is a Enger 35 whose purpose is to enter underneath guide anges or rails 36 located longitudinally in the treating cylinder Somewhat above the tracks therein on which the truck runs.

Fig. 2 shows in section a part of the cylinder wall at 37, the track at 38, andthe guide flanges or rails at 36, located above the projections 35 on the truck frame. The purpose of this is to prevent the trucks being lifted off the tracksby the buoyancy of the treating liquid acting on the load of wood carried by the truck. v

The truck frame described is a single integral piece: It has no joints and no fastenings and therefore is of maximum strength and rigidity for the weight of material. Its construction is such that the load of ties carried thereby can not come into contact with r injure the wheels or their bearings, and can not shift longitudinally. The frame as a whole is of such sha-pe that'the load of ties carried by it can fill a very large portion of the cross sectional area of the treating cylinder. Not only are the wheels housed in the box-like side girders, but they are mounted on bearings which to a. large extent prevent .the escape of grease, which is of importance because of the very high temperature of the treating liquid in which the truck with its load is immersed. This feature however is not described or claimed in the present application.

Fig. 6 shows a modification of the frame designed to receive a bolster, such as is neces-v sary or at least desirable when handling timbers of greater length than can vbe supported on a single truck, and which must be supported at each of their ends on a truck. In this modification the side girders are of reduced depth at their middle portions, as at 40, in order to accommodate the bolster. The ends of said girders however still house the wheels as before. The upstanding arms 11 are omitted, the cross frame is modified to the extent that the cross ribs 27a do not have the acute upper edges, and a strong central beam or transom 41 extends between the two side frames and is provided with a seat for the bolster 42 and a bearing or hole to receive the usual king-pin 43. The buffer bars and coupling connections remain as before.

I claim:

1. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted side frame members, wheels f housed therein, axles for said Wheels mounted in the vertical webs of said side frame h members, and a cross frame integral with the inside webs of said side frame members and lying below the central horizontal plane thereof.

2.' A one-piece truckframe Y comprising hollow inverted side frame members, wheels housed therein, axles for said wheels mounted in the vertical webs of said side frame rnembers, across frame integral with the inside webs of said sldeframe-members, transverse curved bumper members forming a part 'of said cross frame, and a coupler con- 3. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted side frame members, wheels housed therein and mounted on axles secured in the vertical webs thereof, and a cross frame uniting the side' frame members, said cross frame including ua pair of upstanding ribs having acute upper edges. l

4. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted box-like side girders, wheels housed therein and mounted between the vertical webs thereof, a cross frame uniting the inside vertical webs of said side girders, and upwardly projecting outwardly sloping arms rising from the outside corners of said box girders at each corner of the frame.

5. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted box-like side girders, wheels housed therein and mounted between the vertical webs thereof, across frame uniting the said side girders, and upwardly projecting outwardly sloping arms rising from the outside corners of said box girders at each corner of the frame', said arms being of angle shape in cross section.

6. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted box-like side girders, wheels housed therein and mounted between the vertical webs thereof, 'a cross frame uniting said side girders, and upwardly projecting outwardly sloping arms rising from said girders at each corner 'of the frame, said arms being of angle shape in cross section, their longitudinal webs rising from the outside corners of the box girders and their transverse webs being in the planes of the end webs of the box girders.

one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted box-like side girders, wheels housed therein and mounted between the vertical webs thereof, a cross frame uniting the inside vertical webs of said side girders, and upwardly projecting outwardly sloping arms rising from the outside corners of said girders at each corner of the frame, said arms at their upper ends being provided with means for attachment of a bail.

8. A one-piece truck frame comprising side girders, wheels journaled thereto, a cross rame uniting said side girders, said cross frame including a pair of upstanding ribs aving acute upper edges, and upwardly projecting arms rising from the ends of said side girders.

9. A one-piece truck frame comprising hollow inverted box-like side girders, wheels housed therein and mounted between the vertical webs thereof, a cross frame uniting the inside vertical webs of said side girders, said cross frame including a pair of upstanding ribs having acute upper edges, and upwardly projecting outwardly sloping arms rising from the outside corners of said box girders at each corner of the frame.

10. A one-piece truck frame comprising from the outside vertical Webs of the side hollow inverted box-like side girders, Wheels girders near their lower edges and adapted housed therein and journaled in the Vertical to engage under guide rails in the treating l( Webs thereof, a cross frame uniting the incylinder.

55 side vertical webs of said box girders and In testimony whereof, I sign my name.

lying below the central horizontal plane thereof, audA ledges projecting outwardly GRANT B. SHIPLEY. 

